Wedding pledge paid with a daughter of Baker University student
Susie Leake, 18, enrolled as a Baker University freshman to honor a vow made by her Detroit parents in 1948. The pledge paid the minister for their wedding with the first child to attend Baker. Susie plans to become an elementary teacher and cites Baker as a lifelong choice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Susie Leake
Kansas City
Baker University
Susan Pauline Dees
Albert Edward Leake
Detroit
Mich
Highland Park First Methodist Church
Leakes
Missouri
Albert
Union Malleable Iron
Ashland
Ohio
George Olmstead
Baker
George W. Olmstead
Rev. Olmstead
Baldwin City
Merton S. Rice
America
Stanley Kresge
Rice Memorial Auditorium
Susie
Pinckney PTA meeting covers science program and UNICEF drive
Dr. Alfred J. Lata presented The Chance to Wonder Why, a science program demonstration. Officers were elected for the year, UNICEF drive and NAACP book display noted, new science books shown, and volunteers urged for the science fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred J. Lata
EU Chemistry Department
Pinckney Pta
Joe Patterson
George Blake
East Heights
KU Architecture Tour Heads to Chicago Metro Area
The KU School of Architecture and Urban Design sponsors a spring architecture tour in the Chicago Metropolitan area running through April 3. Thirty five students will participate led by Professors James Scalise, Fred Stephenson and Tom Daly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KU School of Architecture and Urban Design
Chicago Metropolitan Area
James Scalise
Fred Stephenson
Tom Daly
Mrs Bayles Chosen for Kansas Arts Advisory Council
Mrs Hugh Bayles of Fredonia formerly of Lawrence was appointed by Gov Robert Docking to the Kansas Cultural Arts Advisory Council. She joined a panel at the second State Conference for the Arts at the Ramada Inn Topeka discussing councils in communities over 10 000. Mrs Bayles is a former Joan Vickers and graduate of Lawrence High School and Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredonia
Hugh Bayles
Lawrence
Robert Docking
Kansas Cultural Arts Advisory Council
Ramada Inn
Topeka
Mrs. Bayles
Joan Vickers
Lawrence High School
Kansas University
District Officers Named for Kaw Valley Barracks Third District
Kaw Valley Barracks 1856 WWI Veterans and Auxiliary announce district officers after Garnett convention. Myrtle Clough Mamie Skaggs and Bessie Westergren named Auxiliary officers. Ruth Brown Myra Kellen Lillian Snow color bearers. Nina Davis publicity chair. Ted Davis commander Gottlieb Nieder chaplain Ralph Gemmell secretary. Local Lawrence attendees include Kelvin Hoover and Mrs Brown among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaw Valley Barracks
Garnett
Myrtle Clough
Mamie Skaggs
Bessie Westergren
Lawrence
Ruth Brown
Myra
Kellen
Lillian Snow
Nina Davis
Westergren
Ted Davis
Gottlieb Nieder
Ralph Gemmell
Kelvin Hoover
Brown
R.H. Ruge
Davis
Nieder
Snow
Clough
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PTA
G. L. Falley
Ralph Johnson
Stanley Shumway
Warren Barrand
James Chicks
John Clifford
Naacp Educational Committee
Unicef
Clifford
Pinckney
Calvin Rice
Commission
Pol. Adv
Chicago
Wyyd
the Castle
Kentucky
Service
RCA Camden
Eddy
Crammer
Dotty West
Hank Snow
Roger Miller
Glen Campbell
Galveston
Wichita Lineman
Phoenix
Bobbie Gentry
Bobby Gentry
Tom Jones
Fter
Careen
Racelers
Oath Jones
Welis Unusual
Ninth
Indiana
McCoys
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